Sir John Charles Ready Colomb, was a British naval strategist and politician.
"The Rule of the Road at Sea". Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1887.
Vice-Admiral Philip Howard Colomb, RN. Born in Knockbrex, near Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, he was a Royal Navy officer, historian, critic and inventor. He was the son of General George Thomas Colomb (1787–1874). His younger brother Sir John Colomb was also a soldier and strategist of the Royal Navy.
Colomb attended the court martial at Portsmouth of Captain Ernest Rice as his friend, following the loss of HMS Sultan. The Graphic, 1889